LIT 3124 Fall 2023 Faulk

This class is a survey of literature written in English from the turn of the nineteenth century and fulfills an LMC Gateway/core requirement.

We will study issues in modern literary history using the lens of Genre Theory. Our course reading includes fantasy/horror tales by H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and Shirley Jackson, “hard boiled” detective fiction including Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and Dorothy B. Hughes’ In a Lonely Place, as well as recent novels about AI and time travel (Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility) that blur the line between science fiction and what was once called “prestige” literature.